Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-01
Attempt to steal SO, 900.

New York, March 31st.-At an early
hour Wednesday morning the Superin-
tendent of the pouch-room registry division
of the New York Postoffice was startled at
the discovery that a package which had
arrived late on Tuesday night in pouch
No. 606 from Portland, Or, containing
$4,000 in currency, was missing. He had
checked the package off some time before
and he could not imagine where it could
have gone to- as no one was in the office
except the clerks, $50 IN number The
Superintendent telegraphed for the Inspec-
tor, Dosser, and detained the clerks until
Dosser arrived. Fhe latter took the clerks
into his Office, and, as his subordinates
were away, be sent for Geo. f. Bangs, of
the Pinkerton agency, to come and help
him. The clerks were examined one at a
time and the examination continued all
day, through the night and until early this
morning. The package was finally found
under some rubbish in a closet. A clerk
named Clarke was arrested on suspicion.
LATER.-Clarke has admitted that he
stole the package, and that he had also
stolen some sixty other packages that had
been missing from time to time for the
past three years. He said he had COM
mitted the theft to pay his debts. He was
addicted to drinking, and had gambled
some. He could not say how much he
had stolen, but it is supposed that he has
taken between four and five thousand dol
lars. Clarke, after he made made his con-
fession, was taken to Ludlow-street Jail.
A Sanguine Democrat.
WASHINGTON, March 31st.-A prominent
Democratic Congressman says the creation
of the Interstate Commerce Commission
will be of inestimable value to the Demo-
cratic party in the next campaign, as it will
have the Administration behind it, and
therefore exert a powerful influence over
railroad corporations which have hereto
fore been the base of supply for Republi-
cans in national elections. As long as the
Republicans were in power the railroads
were willing to help them. but now that
they find the Democrats are in control of
affairs there is no necessity for them to
contribute literally to the Republican cam
paign fund.
Railroad Rumors.
New York, March 31st.-The Maa and
Express says tonight: 1.-The lease of the
Oregon Railway and Navigation property,
though approved by the Union Pacific
stockholders, has not yet been signed. and
it has yet to be perfected. President Elijah
Smith is reported as anxious to dispose of
the Oregon and Transcontlnental holdings,
and there are several details yet to be ar
ranged. The story now is that some ar
rangement for the trust will be devised, but
stockholders will be assured six per cent
for ninety-nine years."
Washington Notes.
WASHINGTON, March 31st-A revised
estimate of the public debt reduction for
March makes it about S11 5O0,O00
A telegram received to-day from Hot
Springs, Ark. announces the sudden death
OF Judge Francis P. Cuppy at that place
last night.
Secretary Endicott has issued circular
calling for information relative to the con-
dition of business in the War Department,
the business methods of Bureaus. and other
matters required by Senator Cockrells
committee.
Commissioner Sparks to-day issued an
order creating a Contest Board, to which
all contest cases now pending, or hereafter
arising, in presumption and public lands